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Preventing the Spread of Malaria and Dengue Fever Using Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
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1Département d'épidémiologie et de santé publique, Institut de médecine tropicale du Service de santé des armées, Marseille, France. imtssa.desp@wanadoo.fr
Abstract:
Public Health is not only a Medical speciality. It is a wide duty area, gathering together professional issued from various jobs. Worldwide is object is to implement, to manage and to assess policies aiming to better health for people. Since few decades these policies are mainly thought and imposed by national, sometimes international offices. Results are not these expected. In tropics, we must include anthropologic aspects and wide sociologic variability to adapt Public Health policies to community needs.
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